dream quotes

There is no woman who does not dream of being dressed in Paris.

-Anonymous
  Catalogue of the1925 Paris Exhibition. Quoted in Colin McDowell McDowell's Directory of  Twentieth Century Fashion (1984), ch.1.

Because thou must not dream, thou needst not then despair!

-Arnold, Matthew
  'Empedocles on Etna', act1, sc.2, l.426.

'Yestreen I dreamed a dolefu'dream; I ken'd here wad be sorrow! I dreamed I pu'd the heather green, On the dowie banks o' Yarrow.' She gaed up yon high, high hillö I wat she gaed wi'sorrowö An' in the den spied nine dead men, On the dowie houms o' Yarrow.

-Ballads
'The Dowie Houms o' Yarrow'.

Certes, je sortirai quant a'   moi satisfait D'un monde o  u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re"  ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'Le Reniement de Saint-Pierre'.

And theseven thin ears devoured theseven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 41:7.

   And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Joel 2:28.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

-Bishop, Elizabeth
  'Questions of  Travel'.

So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.

-Bunyan,John
  The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.1.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

-Carlyle,Thomas
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Man of Letters'.

If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.

-Chirico, Giorgio de
Quoted in Saranne  Alexandrian Surrealist  Art (1970).

   A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls

-Korzeniowski

We live, as we dreamöalone.

-Korzeniowski
  Heart of Darkness, pt.1 (first published in Blackwood's Magazine, collected inYouth:  A Narrative, and Two Other Stories, 1902).

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

-Dick, Philip K(indred)
  Title of novel, later the basis for the film Blade Runner.

   New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To thinkof 'living'there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live'at Xanadu.

-Didion,Joan
  'Goodbye To  All That', collected in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968).

Theyare not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.

-Dowson, Ernest
  'Vitae Summa Brevis'.

My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

-Dryden,John
  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 5.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision and the old men's dream! See Bible106:5.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.238^9.

Underneath the Arches, I dream my dreams away, Underneath the Arches, On cobble-stones I lay.

-Flanagan, Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop
  'Underneath the  Arches' (song).

Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

-Flecker,James Elroy
  'Brumana'.

Keep the Home-fires burning, While your hearts are yearning, Though your lads are far away They dream of Home. There's a silver lining Through the dark clouds shining; Turn the dark cloud inside out, Till the boys come Home.

-Ford, Lena Guilbert
  'Till the Boys Come Home', a wartime anthem (music by Ivor Novello).

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